Will Using Social Media = More Book Sales?

Book sales won’t soar just because you’re using social media marketing. It does, however, keep you in front of your audience of readers. Your authority and expertise in your industry can be established using social media by answering questions, sharing tips, and sharing other relevant information.

Your audience will begin to share your posts with their audience. When you are known as an expert and leader in your field, your audience will be more likely to visit your website and purchase your book or other products and hire you.

Social media gives you the opportunity to engage with your audience and show your readers what your book is all about. Regularly interacting with your audience, influencers, and industry leaders can increase your public image and give your book more exposure.

Grow Your Nonfiction Author Business in November

Set a goal to do three things every day this month to grow your author business. I’ve posted a blog each month this year with ideas to do this. (Links below.)

  1. Review the posts
  2. Write a list of things you can do
  3. Pick three each day to implement

What three things are you going to do today to grow your author business?

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Grow Your Nonfiction Author Business in September

This month’s tip to grow your author business:

Pitch an article idea to an industry blog or website.

Even better – write a series of articles and pitch a column idea. If your articles don’t get picked up, you can publish them yourself on Medium.com.

Do you write regularly for an industry blog? Share the link in the comments section so I can check it out.

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Grow Your Nonfiction Author Business in August

A primary way to grow your nonfiction author business is speaking engagements.

Though you may start with unpaid speaking engagements (which should include selling your book at the back of the room) you want to become a paid speaker. You can learn about how to do that in the article Transitioning to Paid Speaking at the Nonfiction Authors Association website.

This month’s tip: Pitch yourself as a speaker for an event—either in person or for an online conference.

Tell us about your speaking engagements in the comments below. What do you have coming up? What have been your recent successes? What holds you back from speaking engagements?

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Grow Your Nonfiction Author Business in July

Facebook logoWhich Facebook groups are your target audience in? Join one or more of those groups and spend ten minutes a week engaging.

Answer questions.
Ask questions.
Don’t pitch your book or services.
Spend time really engaging.

Do you have a Facebook group? Share a link in the comments so I can go check it out.

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